Course Description

Corel Painter Introduction To Brushes I is the first online class of a two-part online course. The classs is in two parts due to the enormous amount of information contained in Painter's Brushes. This is a MUST HAVE class if you wish to enhance your learning and delve further into Corel Painter to gain a better understanding of the brushes and media. Painter Brushes are designed with real media in mind. For example: you can select a Variable Flat variant from the Oils Category from the Brush Selector bar, and your brush will react just like an oil brush on traditional canvas. The Brush Selector bar lets you can have quick access to all Brush Categories and Variants at your fingertips, beautiful Pastels, Digital Watercolours and Oils, plus more. Painter's recent features are the RealBristle Brushes and Hard Media. These Categories/Variants emulate the natural movement of an artist's brush or pencil thus heightening the responsiveness of your brush in a totally new way. There's no other program that can let you experience this. If you have an older version of Painter, you can actively partake in this course too. However you will not have the availability of RealBristle, Hard Media brushes and possibly other features of Painter. View more sample images This is a 5 week, self-paced, online course. If you need additional help understanding the material presented, you can communicate with the instructor and fellow classmates. The instructor will monitor and track your progress throughout the class. LVS Online offers many wonderful learning tools to help you get the most out of your online course, including an online portfolio service that manages all your course registrations, certificate of completion option, a class discussion board to interact with your instructor and fellow classmates, free hosting account, and a student upload area. LVS is a Corel Training Partner. LVS students may purchase Corel products at a significant savings. Follow this link for details. LVS students are eligible to receive software and hardware at a discount. Follow this link for details. Students are also eligible take advantage of special offers made available specifically for LVS by famous software developers such as Andromeda, AV Bros, Extensis, Harry Heim, namesuppressed, Nik Multimedia, and Ulead. Details are provided in the classinfo link found in the confirmation of registration. Show off your LVS Online spirit with an item from the LVS Store Visit the LVS Blog for updates. If you would like to receive more information regarding this course, click on the "Contact Us" link in the Information section and we'll try to answer any of your questions within the day.

Course Requirements

Do not take the Painter Brushes II class in conjunction with this Painter Brushes I class as this can cause confusion and frustration. The instructor will request that you drop the Painter Brushes II class if you register for both. Corel Painter X, or 11 installed on your system. Earlier versions will work, however lack some of the new features. LVS is a Corel Training Partner. Enrolled LVS students are eligible to purchase Corel products directly from Corel Education Store at a substantial savings! Enter coupon code CRL10LVS when checking out to get an additional 10% discount on all Corel products! There may be Zip files provided to complete many of the weekly exercises. WinZip, PKZip, Windows Compression or a similar program is required to unzip these files. Here are a couple free tutorials available at LVS which may be helpful to you: Winzip Tutorial Here Windows Compression Students must have a working knowledge of their operating system, especially: How to create and name new folders How to locate files How to open and save files Here are a few free tutorials available at LVS which may be helpful to you: PC Users: Free Vista Class Free Windows Class Directory Structure Tutorial Mac Users: Basic Computer File Systems Tutorial (Mac) Certificate Students: Homework must be reviewed by the instructor in order to earn a certificate. Students have the option of using either the Student Upload Area or free web hosting made available for LVS students. Details are provided in the classroom. If you prefer to use your own web space, you must know how to upload your files to a server. Free tutorials are available: Basic HTML Page WS_FTP SmartFTP All lessons are available in PDF format. Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view/print the lessons. Plan to devote 3 - 4 hours per week on the lesson and assignment. Course Recommendation Painter has been optimized to integrate seamlessly with a Graphics (pressure sensitive) tablet such as the inexpensive Wacom Bamboo, or the multi-featured Wacom Intuos. Although you can use the program with a mouse, you will find many of the features to be most effective with a tablet. You may want to consider buying one at some point in time. There is initially a bit of a learning curve, but once you begin to use the tablet and pen in conjunction with Painter (and many other programs) you will be both amazed and excited by how real the painting and drawing effects seem as you work. Check out our academic resellers for discounts on hardware.

Course Prerequisites

Class Level- Intermediate. Completion of Painter I online class or a good knowledge of the Painter program is required. Do not take the Painter Brushes II class in conjunction with this Painter Brushes I class as this can cause confusion and frustration. The instructor will request that you drop the Painter Brushes II class if you register for both.

Course Syllabus

Lesson 1 Document Templates Brush Preferences Brush Tracking Brush Selector bar Accessing Brush Controls Painter 11 - New Hard Media Acrylics Captured Bristle & Palette Knives Lesson 2 Customizing your Wacom Tablet for Painter Tracker Palette Custom Palette Digital Watercolor Lesson 3 Creating Your Own Paper Textures Painting with Textures Blender Brushes Sponges Gouache Lesson 4 Brush Creator Lesson 5 Creating and Saving a Variant Capturing Brush Dabs Creating a New Brush Category Creating Your Own Brush Library Lesson 6 Scripts & Recording Airbrushes Tinting Watercolor

Course Excerpt

LESSON 1 Welcome to Introduction to Corel Painter X/11 Brushes I Week one you will learn about brush preferences, tracking the selector bar that contains so many brush categories and variants. For other weeks there will be information on how to create your own custom palette to add your favorite brushes and textures. I have dedicated a whole lesson on the Brush Creator that enables you to create your own brushes. There are a number of exercises and paintings to do, such as digital watercolor, gouache, and watercolor plus your assignment at the end of each week. Continued... Please note: Lessons provide step-by-step instructions with detailed screen captures.

Course Goals

You will by the end of the class have a good knowledge of the Painter Brushes so that you can go on and further develop painting skills and become proficient at using this powerful program.

Course Reviews

Erin:: "I really appreciated learning a wide range of uses for many of the brushes and to use them in different capacities to achieve a finished painting. I never would have figured out the best brushes for painting, trees, sky, grass, blending, painting water etc. without the guidance. Now I know how to use brushes in combination to complete a painting, and I am not so overwhelmed with the selection anymore." More...